Raymond Carver

The quote by Raymond Carver that opens the recent film Birdman is the exact same that my father read at my grandfather's funeral this past summer.



And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? 
I did. 
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.

-Raymond Carver, Late Fragment

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